Comments on: 2012 might be one deal Romney can’t closehttp://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/05/13/2012-might-be-one-deal-romney-cant-close/
Politics and policy from inside WashingtonTue, 14 Oct 2014 12:57:43 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: GetpIaninghttp://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/05/13/2012-might-be-one-deal-romney-cant-close/comment-page-1/#comment-11785
Fri, 20 May 2011 23:43:28 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=6656#comment-11785You may think you’ll see a rather clear and obvious correlation to those rising costs and the time in which the federal gov’t stuck their noses into the healthcare system–but you would have it backwards. Healthcare costs began to rise as the “market” for healthcare was given over to private hospitals, private health insurance companies, a protected pharmaceutical monopoly, and fee-for-service physicians.
Some free market. Racket is more like it.
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Wed, 18 May 2011 18:55:43 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=6656#comment-11772Right now Romney and the rest of the so-called Republican field doesn’t appear to be able to zip their own flies.
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Wed, 18 May 2011 18:27:28 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=6656#comment-11770Should Romney win the R nomination, and further that should he win the presidency, it would be immediately one of the worst presidencies ever because the push-pull from TPers would destroy any reasonable action he’d take and force him into crazy-town and depression causing policies. Until anyone on the right will advocate for the federal govt needing $3T in revenue and cutting spending to less than that (perhaps to $2.8T – both achievable within one term with cross aisle cooperation) then nothing will get fixed and things will only get worse.
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Mon, 16 May 2011 00:05:01 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=6656#comment-11731Whenever Obama advocates some policy or action, Republicans immediately, unanimously oppose it, in tones of outrage. This happens even if Republicans have supported exactly the same policies in the recent past.

Such a compulsion to oppose an opponent’s ideas can be quite burdensome to a candidate, but generally few reporters seem to notice or report such little contradictions.

Now we learn that even a major presidential candidate’s choices are being constrained, not by his own party’s policies, but by those of his prospective opponent, as filtered through the weirdly distorting glasses of right-wing advocacy groups.

This slavish opposition to anything Obama supports is childish and pathetic. What a sad condition we find our politics in now.

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Sat, 14 May 2011 15:37:48 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=6656#comment-11726Mr. NobleKin–I am actually sort of dumbfounded at your level of trust in the federal government to efficiently and wisely spend your healthcare tax dollars. Outside a small minority of die-hard statists, which you obviously are, there are few Americans who hold such high regard for the efficiency of the gov’t to handle our money. Perhaps the insurance companies would not be the problem to our system that they now are if it weren’t for the feds sticking their fingers into every aspect of healthcare and forcing inefficiencies into the system. Take a historical look at the upward spiral of healthcare costs in the US and I think you’ll see a rather clear and obvious correlation to those rising costs and the time in which the federal gov’t stuck their noses into the healthcare system. Oh, I forgot, statists such as yourself don’t accept history as it actually occured when it doesn’t fit your worldview–you have to rewrite it to fit your politics. Nevertheless, I wish you well in trying to convince Americans that the federal gov’t will wisely spend our tax dollars to build a more efficient and effective healthcare system for all Americans. In fact, I think that should be a major element for the democrat platform in the coming election. Run ads promoting your views so we can all see clearly what you intend.
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Fri, 13 May 2011 18:22:51 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=6656#comment-11725You either believe in free markets or you don’t. Mitt does not. So much for his economic credentials. That he doesn’t understand why this is a political millstone shows he lacks political savvy as well. Case closed. He can’t win the primary.
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